Abstract:Virtual reality (VR) has created a new and rich medium for people to meet each other digitally. In VR, people can choose from a broad range of representations. In several cases, it is important to provide users with avatars that are a lifelike representation of themselves, to increase the user experience and efectiveness of communication. In this work, we propose a pipeline for generating a realistic and expressive avatar from a single reference image. The pipeline consists of a blendshape-based avatar combine… Show more
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